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Dr Lisa C Vanhala Department Of Dr Lisa C Vanhala Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, University College London 29/30 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9QU, Tel: 07914 044003 [email protected] TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE University College London (UCL), Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy Director of Research (2018-present) Reader (now Associate Professor) in Political Science (2017-present) Senior Lecturer in Political Science (2014-2017) Lecturer in Political Science (2012-2014) University of California, Berkeley, Center for the Study of Law and Society/Boalt Law School Visiting Scholar (2015) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Invited Professor (2011 and 2014) University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-legal Studies (CSLS) Associate Fellow (2011-2016) British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship (2010-2011) London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Centre for the Study of Human Rights Economic and Social Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow (2009) EDUCATION University of Oxford, Nuffield College and Department of Politics (2006-2008) DPhil in Political Science, Clarendon Fund Scholar (full-funding) Supervisor: Dr Katrin Auel Thesis title: Making Rights a Reality? Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization in Canada and the United Kingdom University of Oxford, Hertford College (2003-2005) Distinction in the MPhil in Politics: European Politics and Society (the first student in the history of the programme to achieve a distinction) Supervisor: Professor R. Daniel Kelemen Thesis title: European Litigation Strategies, Equality Activists and EU Anti-Discrimination Law McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1999-2003) First Class Honours B.A. in Political Science, Minor in French. L’Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, France (2001-2002) Diplôme du Programme International PUBLICATIONS Book Making Disability Rights a Reality? Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization in Canada and the United Kingdom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Winner of the Socio-legal Studies Association and Hart Early Career Prize 2012 Winner of the Best Book in Comparative Politics, Canadian Political Science Association 2012 Reviewed in Human Rights Review, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Social Movement Studies Journal special issue Co-editor (with Professor Chris Hilson), Symposium on Climate Change Litigation. Law & Policy 35(3) 2013. Peer-reviewed articles Is Legal Mobilization for the Birds? Legal Opportunity Structures and Environmental Nongovernmental Organisations in the United Kingdom, France, Finland and Italy. Comparative Political Studies. 51(3), 2018, pp. 380-412. ‘Let Us Learn’: Legal Mobilization for the Rights of Young Migrants to Access Student Loans in the UK. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 10(3), 2018, pp. 439–460. With Shauneen Lambe and Rachel Knowles. Mobilizing European Law. Journal of European Public Policy, 25(9), 2018, pp. 1376-1389. With Lisa Conant, Andreas Hoffman and Dagmar Soennecken. Shaping the Structure of Legal Opportunities: Environmental NGOs Bringing International Environmental Procedural Rights Back Home. Law & Policy. 40(1), 2018, pp. 110-127. Process Tracing in the Study of Environmental Politics. Global Environmental Politics. 17(4), 2017, pp. 88-105. Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in the UNFCCC Negotiations. Global Environmental Politics 16(4), 2016, pp. 111-129. With Cecilie Hestbaek. Legal Mobilization under Neo-corporatist Governance: Environmental NGOs before the Conseil d'Etat in France (1975-2010). Journal of Law and Courts 4(1), 2016, pp. 103-130. The Diffusion of Disability Rights in Europe. Human Rights Quarterly 37(4), 2015, pp. 831-853. The Comparative Politics of Courts and Climate Change. Environmental Politics 22(3), 2013, pp. 447- 474. Climate Change Litigation: Symposium Introduction. Law & Policy 35(3), 2013, pp. 141-149. Civil Society Organisations and the Aarhus Convention in Court: Judicialization from Below in Scotland? Representation 49(3), 2013. Special Issue: Role of Courts in a Democracy, pp. 309-320 Legal Opportunity Structures and the Paradox of Legal Mobilization by the Environmental Movement in the UK. Law & Society Review 46(3), 2012, pp. 523-556. Social Movements Lashing Back: Law, Social Change and Socio-legal Backlash in Canada. Studies in Law, Politics and Society 54, 2011, pp. 113-140. The Shift to the Rights Model of Disability in the EU and Canada. With R. Daniel Kelemen, Regional and Federal Studies 20(1), 2010, pp. 1-18. Twenty-five Years of Disability Equality? Interpreting Disability Rights in the Supreme Court of Canada. Common Law World Review 39(1), 2010, pp. 27-47. Disability Activists in the Supreme Court of Canada: Legal Mobilization and Accommodating Social Movements. Canadian Journal of Political Science 42(4), 2009, pp. 981-1002. 2 Anti-discrimination Policy Actors and their use of Litigation Strategies: the Influence of Identity Politics. Journal of European Public Policy 16(5), 2009, pp. 738-754. Fighting Discrimination through Litigation in the UK: The Social Model of Disability and the EU Anti- discrimination Directive. Disability and Society 21(5), 2006, pp. 551-565. Book chapters Meaning Frames, Opportunity Structures and Rights in the Canadian Disability Rights Movement in Miriam Smith (ed), Group Politics and Social Movements. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Legal Mobilization. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Political Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 GRANTS Major grants European Research Council Starting Grant (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: The Politics of Climate Change Loss and Damage Duration: May 1st 2018 – April 30th 2023 Amount awarded: €1 471 530 (£1 342 762) ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellowship (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: The Judicialization of Climate Change Politics: A Comparative Analysis of the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada Duration: January 1st 2014 to December 31st 2016 Amount awarded: £179 574 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: Beyond Just Law and Politics: A Socio-legal Analysis of Legal Mobilisation by European Environmental Movements Duration: January 1st 2010 to December 31st 2012 Amount awarded: £245 867 ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: Making Disability Rights a Reality? Legal Mobilisation and Rights Activists Duration: April 1 2009 to March 31st 2010 (declined final three months of funding) Amount awarded: £79 250 Smaller grants UCL Grand Challenge for Justice and Equality - Response to Ageing (PI, Internal Grant) Title: Justice in Society’s Response to Ageing: Use of Law and Human Rights in the Ageing Sector Duration: 2018 Amount awarded: £2200 UCL Grand Challenge of Justice and Equality Small Grant (Principal Investigator, Internal Grant) Title: Barriers to justice? Legal costs and accessing the Judicial Review Courts Duration: 2017-2018 Amount awarded: £4000 UCL Fair Chances Growing Up Fund Small Grant (Principal Investigator, Internal Grant) Title: Evaluating Strategic Litigation on Children and Young People’s Rights 3 Duration: 2017 Amount Awarded: £2550 UCL ‘Sea and Currents’ Fund Small Grant (Principal Investigator, Internal Grant) Title: Legal Mobilization in Europe Duration: 2016-2017 Amount awarded: £3450 UCL SHS Faculty Small Grant (Principal Investigator, Internal Grant) Title: Workshop on Climate Change Loss and Damage Duration: October 1st 2014 to July 31st 2016 Amount awarded: £3000 UCL CHIRP Small Grant (Co-investigator with Dr. Jeff King, UCL Laws, Internal Grant) Title: Legal Mobilisation in the UK: A Comparative Perspective Duration: July 1st 2013 to January 31st 2014 Amount awarded: £4971 Socio-legal Studies Association Small Grant (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: The Diffusion of Disability Rights: A Case Study of France Duration: 2012 to 2014 Amount awarded: £1700 British Academy Small Grant (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: Funding for Fieldwork to support British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Duration: 2011 Amount awarded: £ 6900 British Academy Conference Grant (Co-investigator with Professor Chris Hilson, University of Reading, External Grant) Title: Workshop on Climate Change Litigation, Policy and Mobilization Duration 2011-2012 Amount awarded: £ 7000 CONSULTANCY AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE (SELECTION) Equality and Human Rights Commission, Evaluating How Legal Work Creates Change.(2019) With Jacqui Kinghan. The Legal Education Foundation and BBC Children in Need, Learning Partner. (2018-2020) With Jacqui Kinghan and Shauneen Lambe. The Baring Foundation, Learning Partner to the Strengthening Civil Society Programme (2018- 2020). With Dr Jacqui Kinghan and NPC Lankelly Chase and Public Law Project, Learning Partner for Project on Use of the Law to Achieve Systems Change for those facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage (2017-2018). With Dr Jacqui Kinghan. Just for Kids Law, Evaluated the Impact of Just for Kids Law’s Strategic Intervention in Tigere (2017) The Baring Foundation, Working Paper: Examples of Successful Strategic Litigation in the UK (2016) The Baring Foundation, Working Paper: Framework for Better Use of the Law and Human Rights- based Approaches (2016) UCL, Convened practitioner workshop on Climate Change Litigation: An International Picture (2017) UCL, Co-convened practitioner workshop on Use of the Law by Civil Society in the UK with Professor Jeff King. 4 European
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